ISIL re-enters Syrian Kurdish town Kobane [Images Inc…]

 

At least eight killed in bomb blast in battleground border town as ISIL attacks Kobane from three sides, activists say.

At least eight people were killed in a car bomb attack in the Syrian town of Kobane, as dozens of ISIL fighters attacked the town on the border with Turkey.

The fighters of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant group were wearing Kurdish and Free Syrian Army uniforms, the sources said, as they attacked the battleground town from three sides on Thursday morning.

ISIL fighters took several positions inside the town, while a number of them blew themselves up using explosives belts.

Fighting is said to be ongoing, as the Kurdish group YPG asked civilians to stay home as it sent reinforcements to the town.

The fighting prompted Kurdish activists on Twitter to accuse Turkey of allowing ISIL to attack Kobane from its side of the border. (Al Jazeera.)